FGE Confirms The Capture Of Detainees In Sinaloa For Torched Vehicles In Baja California

"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat

The detainees are Luis Enrique Galindo Coronado alias "El Ñoño" and alleged criminal leader of the gang; Juan José “N”, 34, Jonathan Raymundo, 29, Víctor Aldair Córdova Ramírez, alias “El Gusano”, 18; Jorge, 32, and Sara Isabel, 24; some of them with past criminal records.

Ricardo Iván Carpio Sánchez, Attorney General of Baja California, issued this Tuesday, August 16, a message to publicize the arrest of six of those responsible for blocking burned vehicles last Friday, August 12, in the state.

“With intelligence and strategy, operational actions were carried out that led to the arrest of six people for Federal crimes at a hotel in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, who are being investigated for their participation in the violent acts that have disturbed our society. ”, reported the Attorney General

Among the detainees are Luis Enrique Galindo Coronado, alias "El Ñoño", 35, who was identified as the leader of the criminal group in charge of carrying out the attacks last Friday; Juan José “N”, 34, Jonathan Raymundo, 29, Víctor Aldair Córdova Ramírez alias “El Gusano”, 18; Jorge, 32, and Sara Isabel, 24, who, according to the Prosecutor, were in possession of illicit substances and two vehicles in which they were fleeing from Baja California to western Mexico.

This information had already been mentioned by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on the morning of this August 16.

“Many of those who participated in these acts have already been arrested. Yesterday the arrest of those who participated in Tijuana was carried out, two or 3 leaders and apparently the bosses were arrested in Sinaloa, between Mochis and Culiacán. And the arrests will continue,” the president had commented.

As reported by various local media in Sinaloa, on Monday, August 15, the Secretary of Public Security (SSP) of the State of Sinaloa confirmed the arrest of at least five men in a motel located on the north exit of Culiacán, after the report of a woman’s abduction, who was taken for a witness testimony before the Public Ministry.

The five subjects arrested were initially accused of the abduction of the aforementioned woman, in addition to the fact that the authorities seized two vehicles and various drug packages, following an operation in which elements of the Army, the Guard National and State Police participated. 

"Driving around", is what the detainees said they were doing in Sinaloa, when four men from Tijuana were arrested in Los Mochis on suspicion of having participated in the burning of cars and blockades made in Baja California.

They assured that they had arrived in Sinaloa on Saturday, August 13, "I have family in Los Mochis" and was going to visit them, said Jesús García Arredondo; "I'm going to La Trinidad... I'm going alone," said Luis Enrique Galindo Coronado, alias "Julio García Coronado," 35, arrested in Tijuana for damage to private property in 2009, in 2011 captured with 4.8 kilos of marijuana, and the December 16, 2013 as part of a group that had kidnapped a woman in a business of the Infonavit Army Trigarante housing unit, in the same city, he also has an amparo trial for another crime from 2018, under file 223/2018 .

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